All Chapters of Fix my face not my heart: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

It was time for Elena's consultation for the nose job.She sat quietly in the examination room, staring at the ceiling while the words Chloe had spoken the previous night sat heavily in her stomach.I hope you know what you're doing.The words had followed her all morning.They had followed her through breakfast.Through the drive to the hospital.Even now, as she lay on the examination bed waiting for Adrian, they refused to leave her alone.Elena had expected to feel excited.This was what she had wanted.She had spent weeks convincing herself that this was the beginning of a new life, the first step toward becoming someone Damien could no longer humiliate.Yet now that the moment was actually here, doubt had found its way through every crack in her confidence.The door opened.Adrian walked inside.He looked at her for a moment before approaching the bed.“Good morning, Ms. Hart.”“Good morning, Doctor.”He studied her face.Then he studied her eyes.“You seem tense.”Elena swallow

Even the road that led to the mansion felt different.Elena sat quietly in the back seat, her fingers resting in her lap as the cold breeze drifted toward her face through the slightly opened window. She could feel the difference, even though it was still subtle.Her nose was swollen.There was still some tenderness around the area, and Adrian had warned her that the final result would take time to settle.But Elena could already see it.The shape was different.More refined.More pointed.More perfectly balanced with the rest of her face.She lifted the small mirror she had brought with her and looked at herself again.A smile touched her lips.Everything somehow felt different.More confident.More alluring.More like the woman she had always imagined herself becoming.She knew it was only one small change.Adrian had made that very clear.There would be more procedures if she wanted them, but he had insisted they take things one step at a time.Elena appreciated that.She also appr

Elena had finally gotten Chloe to lie down.The swelling around her sister's eyes had gone down considerably, and her breathing was now more even than it had been when Elena first walked into the room. Chloe had fallen asleep almost immediately, exhausted from crying and talking about everything that had been weighing on her.Elena sat beside the bed for a while, watching her.Her hands folded over themselves, she knew she needed to do something about her sister's dilemma.She couldn't simply sit around while Chloe's career collapsed and her marriages fell apart.But what could she actually do?Elena didn't have the kind of connections Chloe had built over the years, and she certainly wasn't experienced enough to manage an actress's career. Still, there had to be something.She picked up her phone and began thinking about who she could call.Maybe one of Chloe's old producers.Maybe someone from her agency.Maybe she could ask their parents for help without Chloe knowing.Her phone bu

“What?”Elena stared at Lilian, still in utter disbelief at the words that had just come out of the mouth of a woman she had met only a few minutes ago.Lilian didn't look away.“You heard me right.”Elena blinked.“I know Adrian introduced me as a friend,” Lilian continued, her voice calmer now, “but we are more than that. At least for me, anyways.”Elena's lips parted.“What does that have to do with me?”She immediately regretted the question because she already knew where this was going.“I’m married,” Elena added, trying to defend her intentions, even though there wasn't anything to defend. Using her marriage as a shield felt wrong because, in all honesty, she wasn't even sure her husband would use the same shield if their positions were reversed.Lilian folded her arms.“You are all he talks about.”Elena's eyebrows pulled together.“What?”“You heard me.”Lilian took a step closer.“Elena this, Elena that. We can't go a day without hearing your name.”Elena stood there, stunned

“I need things to go well, Elena, from the pictures down to the conversation.”Damien's voice cut through the ringing in Elena's mind.She looked at him, trying to process what he had just said.“With Beatrice there, it is assured. The merger is in the next state. Few people know I'm married there, so it would be perfect.”Beatrice dug her hands deeper into Damien's arm, her fingers wrapped around him in an open display of possession.Elena blinked.She looked at the woman in the red dress, then back at her husband.“That isn't justified.”Damien's expression remained unchanged.“You are taking someone else to a party I've put on my calendar. The party that I already got a custom dress made for. That's so unfair, Damien.”Elena wrapped her hands over themselves, trying to keep her voice steady.A small grin touched Damien's face.He let out a humorless laugh.“Unfair?”He said the word slowly, almost as if he were feeling the texture of it before deciding what it meant.“Getting trapp